Julia Kristeva Word Dialogue And Novel 21.pdf __exclusive__

The relationship between the text and other texts that preceded or coexist with it.

The thesis, which likely anchors of the PDF, can be summarized as: The literary text is not a closed system (a ‘structure’) but an open network, a dynamic permutation of other texts, historical utterances, and subjective drives. Julia Kristeva Word Dialogue And Novel 21.pdf

“Word, Dialogue and Novel” (original French: Le mot, le dialogue et le roman ) is Kristeva’s first major attempt to translate Bakhtin’s concepts into the vocabulary of French structuralism. But she does not simply parrot Bakhtin. She radicalizes him. Where Bakhtin described the polyphonic novel (specifically Dostoevsky), Kristeva extracts a theory of . The relationship between the text and other texts

Kristeva defines textual space through two intersecting axes: But she does not simply parrot Bakhtin

Consider a modern novel like House of Leaves or Lincoln in the Bardo . Kristeva would argue that these are not experimental gimmicks. They are honest reflections of the dialogic condition . On page 21, she suggests that the novel is the only genre capable of capturing modernity because modernity is fragmented, polyvocal, and driven by contradictory desires.